Recipient of the 2006 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize
for the best project in the area of medicine.
The author, a second-generation Greek American, returned to
Greece with her young daughter to do fieldwork over the course of a
decade. Focusing on Rhodes, an island that blends continuity with
the past and rapid social change in often unexpected ways, she
interviewed over a hundred women, doctors, and midwives about
issues of reproduction.
The result is a detailed portrait of how a longstanding system
of "local" gynecological and obstetrical knowledge under the
control of women was rapidly displaced in the the period following
World War II, and how the technologically-intensive biomedical
model that took its place in turn assumed its own distinctive
signature.
"Bodies of Knowledge" is a vivid ethnographic study of how a
presumably globalizing and homogenizing process like medicalization
can be reshaped as women and medical experts alike selectively
accept or reject new practices and technologies. Georges found, for
example, that women in Rhodes have enthusiastically embraced some
new technologies, like fetal imaging during pregnancy, but rejected
others, like medical contraception. They are also avid consumers of
popular childbirth manuals.
"This book is the recipient of the 2006 Norman L. and Roselea J.
Goldberg Prize for the best project in the area of medicine."
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